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The life of a biological scientist in the United States is a life of discussion and debate—it is the Talmudic tradition writ large.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Each sensory system first analyzes and deconstructs, then restructures the raw, incoming information to its own built-in connections and rules—shades of Immanuel Kant.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Libet could predict what a person would do before the person was actually aware of having decided to do it.
In Search of Memory (2006)
My hope is that the difference in the three generations' attitudes may signal a lessening of anti-Semitism in Austria.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The same CREB switch is important for many forms of implicit memory in a variety of other species, from bees to mice to people.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The firing of individual nerve cells involved in perceptual and motor processing is modified by attention and decision making.
In Search of Memory (2006)
We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain.
In Search of Memory (2006)
What biological processes enable me to review my own history with such emotional vividness?
In Search of Memory (2006)
I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The history of Austrian culture and scholarship in the modern era largely paralleled the history of Austrian Jewry.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Exceptionally good memory exhibited by some people may stem from genetic differences in CREB-2 that limit the activity of this repressor protein in relation to CREB-1.
In Search of Memory (2006)
What is learning but a set of sensory signals from the environment, with different forms of learning resulting from different types or patterns of sensory signals?
In Search of Memory (2006)
It is much more meaningful and enjoyable to read the scientific literature about experiments you are involved in yourself than to read about science in the abstract.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large.
In Search of Memory (2006)
What strategy does the brain use to read itself out? That question, which is central to the unitary nature of conscious experience, remains one of the many unresolved mysteries of the new science of mind.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The overarching ideas that have influenced my work and fueled my interest in conscious and unconscious memory derive from a perspective on mind that psychiatry and psychoanalysis opened up for me.
In Search of Memory (2006)
For all of us, explicit memory makes it possible to leap across space and time and conjure up events and emotional states that have vanished into the past yet somehow continue to live in our minds.
In Search of Memory (2006)
I was astonished to discover that working in the laboratory—doing science in collaboration with interesting and creative people—is dramatically different from taking courses and reading about science.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Unlike vision, touch, or smell, which are prewired and based on Kantian a priori knowledge, the spatial map presents us with a new type of representation, one based on a combination of a priori knowledge and learning.
In Search of Memory (2006)